Airmen 1.11.9 brushes the dust off your revolver, carbine, and lever action with AI drone swarms. Drones are a new AI exclusive weapon you can now randomly encounter across the Archipelago. They will launch from their deployment bays and revolve around your ship firing at your engines.
The goal with drones is to open up a new form of interaction with AI enemies and to bring unused game mechanics back into relevance. Let me know how it feels to fight the AI armed with drones both as a solo captain and as a crew.
Drones are most easily destroyed using the accuracy of firearms. Hitting the eyes of the drones will inflict a critical hit with damage varying depending on the weapon used. Drones will also be destroyed when colliding with ships or terrain but will try their best to reverse direction before impact. Destroying the drone bay will also caused all spawned drones to immediately detonate.
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1.11.9
Major Features
- Added AI drone swarms. AI ships with drone deployers will launch small drones that circle their target until destroyed.
Minor Features
- When an AI turret hits its own ship, it will stop firing until it does another clear shot check.
- Added 3 new hunt contract ships using drones.
- Added 6 new island spawns using drones.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed AI turrets not changing targets when the target becomes an ally until another enemy is detected.
- Fixed AI ships giving bounty instead of rewarding gold when defeated.